Thursday, January 26, 2006

Wyvern complete!

This pattern was so fun and just flew. I'm sure it had to do with the gauge of the yarn as well; I got gauge on US 3's (pattern called for 2's), but the column gauge had to have been way off too-- I have a sz 9-9.5 foot and only got thru 3.5 repeats of the pattern before I started the heel, and did 7 repeats total (the author had 11 total repeats). I also only knit 4 rnds of p2, k2 at the cuff.

Bound off using US 6's, and they're super comfy.

This was only the 2nd pattern (Pomatomus was 1st) that I knit using a chart-- I had a fear of charts til now. I also pretty much taught myself short rows with this pattern, which is a huge reason why I love knitting socks... I just dive in and hope there's a tutorial online to help with any snags. In this case the 1st sock I knit has some funky holes on the purl side pickups for the shortrows; this month's Interweave Knits had a tutorial/refresher on short rows and I found their illustrations quite helpful (so no wonkiness on the 2nd sock as far as short rows are concerned).

This last picture is the huge quantity of yarn I had left over. :) I weighed out 4 oz on my kitchen scale, but its terribly unreliable (only for guesstimates) so perhaps there was less than 4 oz. Still, what a thrill to make it-- I think sock knitters get some sort of jolt in watching the sock yarn dwindle on the second sock (I know I did)...